“Identification
with our nation’s history will foster assimilation and participation in common goals that promote good citizenship and
civic involvement”

This website is dedicated
to all soldiers of Pilipino descent who served in the United States military during the Vietnam
War. The mission of this website is to reclaim our forgotten military history and heritage in the United States Armed Forces.

We start with the name
list of our Pilipino Vietnam War Veterans from their respective home state of (military) record or state of residence.
Many of the initial listings will come from the State of Hawaii, since my first project is
about Pilipinos in Hawaii

A guest page in this website is for themore than 2,000 Pilipinos in the Philippine
Civic Action Groups (PhilCag) and the Philippine Contingents (Philcon) sent by the Philippine government from 1964 to 1971
to serve the medical, dental, engineering and other needs of the Vietnamese. These noncombatant civic groups included Philcag
Chief of Staff Colonel Fidel V. Ramos, a West Point graduate and the future President of the Philippines (1992-1998). A prominent war journalist was Max Soliven,
the Harvard educated future co-founder of Philippine Daily Inquirer & Philippine Star. Philcag suffered its first casualties
in September 1966 when seven Pilipinos were wounded in Tay Nihn S. Vietnam mine.

The Philippines had been traditionally sensitive to the humanitarian needs of the Vietnamese.
In 1954 Operation Brotherhood had sent doctors and nurses to Vietnam.
This people to people program continued its charitable mission until 1956, despite suffering a tragedy when Dr. Jose Alejos,
Adela D. Pimentel, R.N. and Yvonne Ocampo, Nurses Aide died in a boating accident on August 27, 1955. Then, after the fall
of South Vietnam government in 1975, camps were set up in the Philippines to aid and shelter the Vietnamese refugees prior to their resettlement in the United States, Canada, Australia, etc. The repatriation situation became complicated
with more arrivals of Vietnamese fleeing by boatloads from their country. Although, this became problematic to a poor country
like the Philippines, but since the Pilipinos
are generally compassionate and tolerant of people with religion, culture and language different from their own, they tried
their best to accommodate the needs of the Vietnamese asylum seekers. Additionally, since the Philippines is the host country
to the U.S. military bases, the role that the Pilipinos had played in these wars that involved Asian countries like Japan,
Korea & Vietnam can not and should not be ignored.

The awareness of
our unique history is the responsibility of every living Pilipino. I offer you this website as a limited resource for the
Vietnam War. It is my hope that my love for the Philippines
history and culture overcome my lack of scholarly credential.

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How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?Yes, 'n' how
many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand?Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls flyBefore
they're forever banned?The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How
many times must a man look upBefore he can see the sky?Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear
people cry?Yes, 'n'how many deaths will it take till he knowsThat too many people have died?The
answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain existBefore
it's washed to the sea?Yes, 'n' how many years can some people existBefore they're allowed to be free?Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn
his head,Pretending he just doesn't see?The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is
blowin' in the wind.

Ballad of the Green Beret

Barry Sadler and Robin Moore

Fighting soldiers from
the skyFearless men who jump and dieMen who mean just what they say

The brave men of the Green Beret

Silver
wings upon their chestThese are men, America's bestOne hundred men will test todayBut only three win the Green
Beret

Trained to live off nature's landTrained in combat, hand-to-handMen who fight by night and dayCourage
peak from the Green Berets

Back at home a young wife waitsHer Green Beret has met his fateHe has died for those
oppressed Leaving her his last request

Put silver wings on my son's chestMake
him one of America's bestHe'll be a man they'll test one dayHave him win the Green Beret.

Memorial Day

Joyce Kilmer

The bugle echoes shrill and sweet,But
not of war it sings to-day.The road is rhythmic with the feetOf men-at-arms who come to pray.